Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
Perspective
Measles Elimination Efforts and 2008–2011 Outbreak, France
Table
Measles-related complications among 4,968 hospitalized patients, by age group, France, January 2008–December 2011*
Complications | No. (%) patients, by age group, y |
p value† | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<1, n = 470 | 1–14, n = 1,150 | 15–29, n = 2,290 | >30, n = 1,058 | Total, n = 4,968 | ||
All complications |
130 (27.7) |
373 (32.4) |
669 (29.2) |
441 (41.7) |
1,613 (32.5) |
<0.001 |
Pulmonary | ||||||
Pneumonia | 75 (15.9) | 227 (19.7) | 416 (18.2) | 305 (28.8) | 1,023 (20.6) | <0.001 |
Other‡ |
1 (0.2) |
21 (1.8) |
32 (1.4) |
15 (1.4) |
69 (1.4) |
NS |
Ear, nose, throat | ||||||
Otitis media | 24 (5.1) | 27 (2.3) | 11 (0.5) | 2 (0.2) | 64 (1.3) | <0.001 |
Other‡ |
6 (1.3) |
12 (1.0) |
11 (0.5) |
5 (0.5) |
34 (0.7) |
NS |
Digestive tract | ||||||
Diarrhea/dehydration | 3 (0.6) | 26 (2.3) | 30 (1.3) | 19 (1.8) | 78 (1.5) | NS |
Liver or pancreas disorder | 1 (0.2) | 5 (0.4) | 105 (4.6) | 70 (6.6) | 181 (3.6) | <0.001 |
Other‡ |
11 (2.3) |
18 (1.6) |
19 (0.8) |
5 (0.5) |
53 (1.1) |
NS |
Neurologic | ||||||
Encephalitis or myelitis | 0 | 10 (1.1) | 13 (0.6) | 4 (0.4) | 27 (0.5) | NS |
Other‡ |
2 (0.4) |
10 (0.9) |
8 (0.3) |
1 (0.1) |
21 (0.4) |
NT |
Keratitis |
0 |
1 (0.1) |
9 (0.4) |
6 (0.6) |
16 (0.3) |
|
Other‡ | 10 (0.2) | 21 (1.8) | 32 (1.4) | 17 (1.6) | 80 (1.6) | NS |
Death | 0 | 2 (0.2) | 6 (0.3) | 2 (0.2) | 10 (0.2) | NT |
*Total excludes 12 patients with unknown date of birth. NS, not significant; NT, not tested (expected value <5).
†By χ2 test.
‡Other complications (numbers in brackets indicate no. cases of that complication identified): pulmonary (e.g., bronchitis, pleurisy); ear, nose, throat (e.g., tonsillitis, sinusitis); digestive tract (e.g., vomiting, dysphagia, abdominal ache); neurologic (e.g., Guillain-Barré syndrome [1], meningitis); other (e.g., miscarriage [5], premature delivery [3], neonatal infection [4], myocarditis/pericarditis [8], general state impairment [42], thrombocytopenia [18]).